Democracy and Social Ethics eBook

which we have all had glimpses, anticipate in our relation
to the living that peace of mind which envelopes us
when we meditate upon the great multitude of the dead.
It is akin to the assurance that the dead understand,
because they have entered into the Great Experience,
and therefore must comprehend all lesser ones; that
all the misunderstandings we have in life are due
to partial experience, and all life’s fretting
comes of our limited intelligence; when the last and
Great Experience comes, it is, perforce, attended by
mercy and forgiveness. Consciously to accept
Democracy and its manifold experiences is to anticipate
that peace and freedom.

INDEX[1]

Alderman, basis of his political success, 226, 228,
240, 243, 248, 267;
his influence on morals of the American
boy, 251, 255, 256;
on standard of life, 257;
his power, 232, 233, 235, 246, 260;
his social duties, 234, 236, 243, 250.